Anyway, please make your edit again. I was incorrect in touching it. I had experienced a case of vandalism a while back and was not sure about the protocol. You are far more well versed in this than I am. Thank you so much again for your help!!

Also, I would revert to your changes myself but I am nowhere near as expert in Wiki as you are and I don't want to mess your work up further. Thanks! So sorry again for the confusion. Again, I really appreciate your time and consideration!

Best,

Nick

Singers should not be categorized as "musicians" unless they professionally play an instrument as well[edit]

Hi Ser, I noticed that you are currently categorizing singers as "musicians", but that should not be done unless the singer also plays an instrument professionally, as that is what the category "musician" refers to -- instrumentalists. Could you please revert those additions you made? Thanks. Softlavender (talk) 03:58, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

That's correct, as far as categories go, but we singers feel offended when people say "the singers and musicians" ;) - See also the question on my talk which I therefore could not answer, also because of professional vs. "for the love of music", - look for "musician". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:39, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

Okay, this seems to have been going on for some time...Per my response at Talk:Shana (singer), I am flummoxed at how Wikipedia came to the conclusion that singers are not musicians. Is a larger discussion needed, or has one already occurred on this matter? Chubbles (talk) 04:59, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

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St. Thomas School, Leipzig or Thomasschule is one of the most notable schools in the world, yet I don't find a cat for alumni/students and teachers. Help? I remember the short name much better than the long construction ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:12, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

But that won't work, because it exceeds the character limit by 9 characters. My computer is running Windows 7 and doesn't have Old English Text MT, or any similar font for that matter, so your name displays in an ordinary serif font. This would work ...

You can save five more characters by changing Contributions to Contribs. That will allow any font that can be named in 15 characters or less. You could save one more character by changing the two hyphens to an en dash (–). Ser Amantio di Nicolao, most users are cooperating. I hope we can count on your cooperation too. —Anomalocaris (talk) 00:13, 14 December 2017 (UTC)

Ser Amantio di Nicolao, you work so hard to improve Wikipedia, so won't you please deal with this? This signature has 253 characters, two below the limit:

Could you please consider NOT doing edits such as the ones happening here?

One: You are removing asterisks from before calls to the "FM station data" and "AM station data" templates. These templates provide their own asterisks (for list items). But removing the asterisk does not change the rendered text. So your edit does not affect what users see.

Two: Similarly, you removed trailing spaces from the last sentences in paragraphs. But these spaces do not make any difference in the rendered text. (The extra space is even removed during the rendering. Check the end of this paragraph vs. the previous one. The rendered text doesn't have a trailing space in either case, but there's one here in the wikitext.)

Edits that do not affect the rendered text do not help the encyclopedia. On the contrary, you are adding clutter to the articles' edit histories and to editors' watchlists. This wastes other editors' time, as they check up on the edits.

All for edits that do not change the reader's experience in the slightest - let alone improve it.

Jeh (talk·contribs) The spacing issue is something AWB does automatically; it can be easily turned off. I tend not to turn off automatic fixes when I do AWB edits, but I don't think it matters that much either way, and I have no objection to doing so in future.

For the removing of asterisks - the edit does affect what users see. At least me. See this diff - when I look at the list of links at the bottom, there's an extra bullet with blank space next to it. The template provides its own asterisk, but adding an asterisk before it creates another blank line, with a bullet point in front of it; my edit is removing those. Now, I'm not sure if it's an issue unique to Firefox, but I don't think it is.

Your comment about the asterisk on the radio station template is very thought-provoking. Given your description of "extra bullet with blank space next to it", I can certainly understand why you'd make those fixes.

But I don't see that in Firefox. This is 64-bit Win10, Firefox version 58.0 (64-bit). Nor do I see it IE 11.850.15063.0, Chrome 63.0.3239.132 (64-bit), or Edge 40.15063.674.0. (All on 64-bit Win10.)

I have no doubt that you're seeing it, and I don't know why I'm not seeing it... then again I haven't looked at the template code (and I'm not skilled in the template metalanguage). Maybe there is some fix that can be done in the template code that isn't working on the particular Firefox version you're using. Definitely a head-scratcher! Jeh (talk) 09:14, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Curiouser and curiouser. Here's a screenshot I took showing the issue at the article on WETA-FM - note the two empty bullets with blank space next to them. But it's from a different computer, and it's not using Firefox - it's on my work computer, and it's done using Internet Explorer. I wonder...let me try backing out of my account and viewing the article as an IP, and see if that makes any difference.

I have the same problem you do; I don't know the first thing about template metalanguage, and that's why I've avoided working the issue from that end.

I'll hold off on doing any more for now, until we can figure out a way of getting this resolved. But now I'm curious...I wonder where the discrepancy is happening? And I wonder how many other editors are seeing the one vs. the other? More to the point - which one of us is seeing the default? --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 15:37, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Well what do you know...I viewed the same page as an IP, and the issue disappeared. Guess it has something to do with the skin I'm using.

Wow. A useful discovery indeed! In that case I'd say a note to whoever maintains that skin would be in order. Cheers! Jeh (talk) 21:15, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

@Jeh: OK, I'll send 'em a note. Also - given that there are so few other skins - I might drop a note to other creators to let them know to take a look. Best to get rid of it all at once, if so. Of course, now I'm wondering...what else am I missing? --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 21:20, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

I know you're swamped right now, but I was touched by the Troyanos anecdote, and I couldn't help thinking of kindly advice from you, sir, on an occasion when it was just the ticket. I had no idea you were so prolific, and yet you take the time to help with the little, tedious problems we have along that learning curve. Thank you, Ser Amantio, for all you do, and even more, for what you represent. rags (talk) 22:22, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

These days, only in the shower, if no one else is home. I received a bit of training in my youth, when dinosaurs roamed, but my recent requests have been confined to "Far, Far Away!"

I never read 'The Signpost,' and find it somewhat remarkable that I happened to spot your name.

Funny you should mention DC. I have a friend of many years who lives there, and it has come to my attention that he is now authoring and publishing books! I'll find specifics and add them. Brett Busang is his name, and he has painted and written about painting on occasion in NYC/Richmond/DC for several years. I believe his novel is Who Shot Bruce, (first fictional effort), and a subsequent collection of short stories about growing up in the South. We have discussed my Wikipedia efforts, I encouraging him to soldier on in learning to edit, but he is hesitant. He has the skills, and once even helped in the publication of a local weekly, but he is basically a shy person. My guess is that he became discouraged after early efforts were reverted.rags (talk) 08:39, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

CORRECTION: novel is entitled I Shot Bruce. I haven't read it yet. He can certainly put together a story, but, as I said, first effort, so I don't know how readable it will be. Reviewers on one site averaged four stars.

How can this possibly be? Oh, right, it's only the Caribbean o.0 and has only been in existence for 70 years, so surely in that brief amount of time there are no faculty of note. (smirk) Can you wave the magic wand and fix it for me? SusunW (talk) 17:47, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

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I understand that your main concern is creating and adding your categories, though again, I don't understand why they have to be generic and not narrower (like, I can't see why you would add "20th-century male writers" and "Romanian male writers" instead of just creating a "20th-century Romanian male writers"). But would you please try and find the categories a proper place in the queue? You can see the categories arranged in some order, then you just add yours, always and always at the bottom: as here, but also in about 1,000 places where you just leave them. Dahn (talk) 21:10, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

I won't tell you not to use automated tools, as I do see a point to making this task more manageable. I can however point out that creating the narrower categories from the start would significantly reduce the issue. For one, if you replace a category, rather than add a category it seems to take its place in the queue (i.e. the slot of the old category). So if you were to replace "20th-century writers" and "Romanian male writers" with a crossover "20th-century Romanian male writers", the new cat will just replace one of the two (whichever is the one that's on top, I think). So actually planning ahead to where you want these categories to lead, and starting from there, would save us both time and effort. Dahn (talk) 21:22, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

To begin with, I find it strange that you are not sure about the acceptance of "male categories" after you personally contributed massively to the creation of a "male X" tree of categories. So that's not a valid reason, IMHO: if we have the whole tree, then we better make it rational. It makes sense that the next step would be to establish categories for profession, gender, and period together -- I mean, if there is any point to gender categories, then the only way in which it can help readers is to give them quick access to "men writers of the 20th-century in Romania" or "Thai women academics of the 21st-century". Otherwise, simply having "these are all the men who ever wrote stuff in the 20th century, put together", or "these are all the Romanian writers, of whatever gender, in the 20th century put together" isn't of any use, it just survives as a testimony to the ideological point it originally made ("that having categories just for women is discriminatory etc."). Have a look through Category:French male writers and try and imagine anyone thinking "Gee, I'm sure happy we have these 3,300 articles put together, all the penises in one basket." Dahn (talk) 21:38, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

I am agnostic on whether the tree has a point or not. An incomplete tree that only creates piles of thousands of articles is however very useless. We can both see a point to the narrower categories, presumably: if we are to have "male X" categories, then they are useful only when they can provide context -- the most context you get is "male writers from the 20th-century". There is however nobody served by the existence of "20th-century male writers", which inevitably leads to categories that have thousands of entries. Have you ever found an use for any category with thousands of members, instead of a category with tens of subcategories? Dahn (talk) 21:50, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

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Your constant category changes and additions are misinformed, unnecessary, and in most cases harm the article. I urge you to use discretion when doing category edits. Any more of this kind of careless bot-work will henceforth be considered vandalism. SamJohn2013 (talk) 18:22, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

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Thank you for adding taxonbars to relevant articles. Taxonbars shouldn't follow stub templates. They should be added just before categories (and preceding DEFAULTSORT and authority control if these elements are present). See Template:Taxonbar#Position. Plantdrew (talk) 20:30, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

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@William Avery: and @Tom.Reding: Apologies - those are from the first batch, when I was relying on a manual scan to ensure the template wasn't there and sometimes missed seeing it. I'm 99.999% certain the issue has been fixed in my recent batches done with the module; every test I have run indicates that to be the case. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 15:13, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

No big deal. I make quite a lot of edits myself, and understand how this kind of thing happens. :-) William Avery (talk) 15:26, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

@Tom.Reding: You've got a method to search for articles with multiple instances of a particular template? I'd love to know about it. Taxobox had 255,700 transclusions at the start of this month, but was used on 255,688 pages. I'm not sure if that count is only article space (taxobox documentation pages legitimately have multiple taxoboxes), but if there are 12 articles with multiple taxoboxes, I'd like to find them and fix them. (sorry/not sorry for hijacking Ser Amantio di Nicolao's talk page, since you two already hijacked mine)<smile>. Plantdrew (talk) 17:16, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

@Plantdrew: Sure, I'm just using AWB to look for instances of \{\{\s*(?:Taxon?bar|Taxon[ _-]+bar|TaxonIds)[\d\D]*\{\{\s*(?:Taxon?bar|Taxon[ _-]+bar|TaxonIds) on all {{Taxonbar}} pages (only ~30 found so far btw and I'm ~60% done). If the # of transclusions were relatively stable (i.e. from the last WP dump), I'd opt to use AWB's database scanner to perform the same search. There *might* even be a way to Quarry it, but I'm not sure, and I certainly don't know enough SQL to even try. Want me to run it for {{Taxobox}}es? ~Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)

@Tom.Reding: Please run it for taxoboxes. My regex skills aren't very strong and I don't use AWB. I've stumbled across a couple articles with multiple taxoboxes on my own, but it's been stable at 12 extra transclusions for months now. Plantdrew (talk) 18:21, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

@Plantdrew: Using the regex \{\{\s*(?:Template:|Wikipedia:)?(?:Infobox[ _]+(?:bacteria|microorganism|Taxobox|virus)|Taxobox|TAXO|TX)(?=\s*\|)[\d\D]*\{\{\s*(?:Template:|Wikipedia:)?(?:Infobox[ _]+(?:bacteria|microorganism|Taxobox|virus)|Taxobox|TAXO|TX)(?=\s*\|) on the Feb 3 dump, I found 38 pages. The first 14 below look weird to me, the remainder appear a bit more 'normal'. Otherwise, in no particular order:

Also, the # of transclusions I thought was the # of pages - where did you get those differing #s? Perhaps the 255,688 number only included mainspace transclusions?

Also also, I found 86 multiple {{Taxonbar}}s, which I'll sift through today. ~Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 15:31, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

@Tom.Reding: Thanks, this is exactly what I wanted. Most of these are false positives incorporating the rarely used {{tx}} to format binomials. But I think it's caught all the instances of multiple taxoboxes. These instances were pretty much what I was expecting: a fungus with taxoboxes for both anamorph and teleomorph (Rhizoctonia solani), a disease with multiple causal agents (SMEDI), and a species complex (Mycobacterium avium complex). I've copied this list over to my workspace now. I got the 255,688 number here. Plantdrew (talk) 16:22, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for sorting out the mess I got into. Question: as an example should not the categories "Death from dementia" be moved to "People with dementia". Also Alzheimers should be moved to "People with Alzheimers disease‎" (no apostrophe). Death is impossible by these methods the killer is always something else. Same goes with HIV or AIDS. Regards --BeckenhamBear (talk) 21:49, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

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Please stop your editing and address the issues before continuing the edits (which should probably be done by bot if they are wanted). Fram (talk) 15:24, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Any reason you have again made 1000 or so of these edits in rapid succession? Please stop these edits until it is clear whether the "from" should be added immediately, and whether they should be made by bot (well, the question on the second part is almost certainly "yes"). And making thousands of "test" edits is just sloppy in any case. Fram (talk) 08:35, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

"Well, I've had further discussion with the WikiProject in question. They have no problem with the ANI edits being done until a bot is coded. I'll ease up for the day. " Not exactly clear what you mean with "being done", done as in "finished, stopped until the bot is coded" or "being made by you until the bot is coded". In any case, a project doesn't get to decide who can or can't violate our policies. The edits have been complained about (by the IP, who should have come here), and it looks that if the project gets what they want, all these articles need to be edited again by the bot to add the "from" parameter anyway, so it seems much better to simply wait until the issue is settled and the bot approved, and then do it right in one go. Fram (talk) 13:43, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

Hello sir. Based on your experience in editing, I wanted some help from you. I wanted to know if Wikileaks can be mentioned as a reference in articles or as a reliable source? M A A Z T A L K 08:59, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

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Planning on spending Saturday getting photos up your way: PW and Fairfax counties, and Fairfax/Manassas/MP cities. I note that a bunch of sites are in parks, and I wondered if you could share experiences as to which ones are easy to get and which ones I really shouldn't bother attempting in the first place? For example, the Orange and Alexandria Railroad Bridge Piers would be nice to get, but I don't feel like discovering that there's no real access to this portion of Bull Run Regional Park. And aside from spots that the county lists say are on military bases, are there any restricted-access sites? I know not to bother with sites listed as being on Fort Belvoir or USMC Quantico, or Fort Myer in Arlington County, but I'm not clear exactly which sites are on bases. Nyttend (talk) 23:06, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

- Fort Belvoir is off-limits, but you might just be able to see the Woodlawn Quaker Meetinghouse from Route 1 as you drive across the base. You used to be able to, but since they've rerouted the road I'm not sure you can any more. That said, it's an active site, still, so if you're curious you can always call and ask how parishioners get there.

- Lexington we've discussed before. My impression from the discussion I had with the ranger at Mason Neck State Park is, basically, it's there, they acknowledge that, but they won't tell you where it is, and if you want to look for it more power to you. Give me a sec and I'll see if I can't find a picture of the ruins you'd be looking for; as I recall there's the remains of a wine cellar there.

Also, if you're interested in sites that have been removed from the Register, the site of Moorefield in Vienna is easily accessible; I can tell you how to get there if you wish. It's even marked by the city.

Fairfax proper is fairly straightforward. Same with Manassas and Manassas Park.

Prince William County I don't really know, but I'd check on advisories for the Prince William Forest Park before heading out this way. As I recall it received a lot of wind damage in the storm earlier this month, and they closed it for a few days...whether or not it's open again I don't know. And Corey Stewart currently owns Bel Air, so I'd bear that in mind if you're passing by. Otherwise, apart from the sites on Quantico I don't think anything in particular is hard to find. May take some walking, but that's it.

Thank you for the input. Given your reminder, I think I'll avoid PWFP and other parks entirely this trip...enough sites in the region that I can get without worrying about wind damage effects. And I'll definitely skip the O&A bridge. I'm wondering if you could park at the Hemlock Overlook park, find a little spot to cross Popes Head Creek, and continue up Bull Run to the site, but that would require a good deal of effort and time: not what I want to be doing when I have a three-hour drive each way, especially since I don't know if it would work. I've had enough wasted time in the past with first-off attempts to find places like the Thornton gravestone, or Battery Rock; one little missed trailhead, and I spent maybe an hour wandering around in the rain before giving up (the photo in the article dates from a later visit) and wasn't able to get all the sites I planned for that day. Nyttend (talk) 01:22, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

PS, they haven't mailed me coupons in a long time. (Maybe this is related to the demise of one local BK; formerly located in a Wal-Mart, it's now been replaced by an ordinary merchandise display) I was figuring on finding something else to eat :-) Nyttend (talk) 01:23, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

@Nyttend: Any time. Though for what it's worth most of the wind damage, at least that I can see in Fairfax County, has been cleaned up. As to the bridge...well, I live in the same county, and I'm waiting on better weather to plan an entire day around trying to get up there, when I have some time to get a bit lost. I've had my own share of wasted first efforts...and second efforts...and third efforts...

I wonder if Burger King's on its last legs. The last couple of times I've visited I haven't been as pleased as I used to be. Looking back over past conversations, I see you like Wendy's or Arby's as alternates. As to the latter...I think there may be one around. But it's actually pretty close to Green Spring Gardens Park, so you might be in luck. There are more Wendy's franchises around. I'd only avoid this one on Loisdale Road because the parking lot makes no sense whatsoever.

Good to hear; not like a couple of weeks ago when I was getting some photos around Crozet, when all the roads were clear, but chainsawed limbs and branches were sitting along a lot of roads, including the highways. Someone from my church took a Greyhound trip with friends to NYC around the time of the storm; last week after church he noted that they were planning to stop in Philadelphia, but the bus skipped the stop because all the roads they could have taken to the station were blocked! If I were you, I'd try to get the bridge some summer day when it's droughty, simply because I can't guess from satellite view whether there's a convenient place where you can cross the creek dryshod. Meanwhile...I was up in DC three separate times over the summer for day-long photo trips, all after the time we met. If I make any such trips this summer, I'll try to remember to ask you about meeting somewhere; it would be quite enjoyable. Nyttend (talk) 02:52, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

@Nyttend: I have an adventurous friend who might be willing to join me in renting a boat and going up the river to view the piers from the water, too. Regardless, it'll be a few months at the earliest.

My office was actually closed the Friday of the storm due to high winds. I stepped out for lunch and saw the power lines down along Route 1. (I snapped this video at the same time.) I follow a local blog about the south county area, and it mentioned a handful of other locations where the power was out. Most of them had been cleared out within a day. By the time I went into DC for choir rehearsal on Tuesday, the only evidence of the storm I could find was the chainsawed remains of a couple of trees along the GW Parkway and a handful of road signs that were missing panels. I commute into Springfield for work, and don't recall seeing any particular wind damage on my usual route.

:-) Basically all I've seen of Fairfax County is I-66 and US 29 between Arlington County/the District and farther-out suburbs, plus the areas around the Original DC Boundary Markers; this trip should be the first time exploring the county more. Not exactly looking forward to it (I hate suburban photography: lots of traffic, nowhere to park, and no sidewalks), but I want to get as close as I can to comprehensive photography here in Virginia (excluding last week in Newport News/Hampton and a recent jaunt through part of Albemarle County, I've photographed 68% of sites statewide), so I'm going to have to do the NoVA suburbs at some point or give up that goal. As far as weather, we had a bit of wind, but it definitely wasn't as bad down here. Nyttend (talk) 03:27, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

@Nyttend: Having grown up in Fairfax County, I will admit...it has its charms. Lots of problems with traffic and sprawl, and poor civic planning, but there are some very pleasant neighborhoods. And there's an increasing awareness of the local history that I find refreshing. Couple of years ago they introduced a county-wide historic marker project, which I enjoy. And I've begun poking around in some of the old cemetery records online - there are quite a few old family cemeteries still lurking around in the area. Many of them are hiding in plain sight, too; I actually discovered one today on the way to work that I must have passed a hundred times, going in each direction. But today I looked in just the right place. Unfortunately it's on federal land, so I doubt I'll be able to get much closer for a look.

No complaints about this area in particular; I know it has its interesting spots, as do plenty of other suburban areas to which my comments apply. Suburban Dayton OH, suburban Cleveland, suburban Pittsburgh, suburban Louisville: all of these are messy for photography, despite having lots of interesting locations that I've enjoyed seeing. File:Leslie V. Abbott House.jpg, appearing on National Register of Historic Places listings in The Highlands, Louisville, Kentucky, typifies suburban photography — I tried two or three times to get a photo of this house, but the best I could do was this partial shot because I never could slow down very much thanks to traffic behind me. And I've never been able to get a good image of Rosedale for the same reason. Nyttend (talk) 11:31, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

@Nyttend: I doubt you'll have that kind of problem around here...I can't think of any sites that are on heavily-trafficked roads, save maybe the few that are set so far back from the road that you can't see them in the first place. Tauxemont and Hollin Hills should be pretty easy, for instance. And I've managed to photograph stuff to illustrate a few of the local CDPs pretty easily. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 15:02, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

Well, although I've only looked at a few sites in detail so far, Bloomfield looks like it will be this kind of problem. I'm thinking of trying to park at the adjacent tavern park and taking advantage of my zoom lens. Nyttend (talk) 17:51, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

@Nyttend: Possible, I suppose - I've been by there, but I'd forgotten that there's a path up to road level from the tavern parking. Alternatively, if you want to try your luck from one of the side residential streets I think it's likely you won't attract much attention on a Saturday. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 18:25, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

Funny we were talking about no BKs...I was planning to stop at the BK-inside-a-gas-station in Ruckersville, as I normally do when I come to DCland, but to my surprise the complex is totally gone. No BK, no gas station, no construction zone that I could see (it was before sunrise), so I had to wait until Culpeper :-( Now sitting inside the Wendy's on Lee Highway near Glebe Road. At least Bloomfield was easy, being reachable from the tavern's parking lot. If only I'd been able to get Sully, which was closed. Nyttend (talk) 15:50, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

Sully is another one of those places I've been meaning to visit, but never got around to. That's the part of the county where I don't spend a whole lot of time, and I really need to start rectifying that. Glad you were able to get Bloomfield. Given that the trees are denuded right now, you may have more luck on such matters than otherwise. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 17:06, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

Actually, the only plants obstructing it were tall grasses (if I remember rightly); it was easily visible from the road. I also picked up some Arlington sites I'd missed before; when I got to SW Boundary Stone #8, I had to wait because two other people were photographing it when I got there; they told me that they were visiting as many as possible :-) Ended up getting almost fifty sites (many more than I would have guessed from all the traffic), including everything in Manassas, Manassas Park, and Fairfax. I wouldn't have come had I known what the weather would be; back on Wednesday or Thursday the DC forecast for Saturday was 60°s and sunny (when I got up this morning, I was counting on taking off my sweatshirt and going t-shirt only, but I never took off my jacket), and I couldn't possibly have imagined encountering more-than-flurries in Vienna. And now that I'm done with photos and eating in Manassas, the sun comes out for the first time since I was preparing to start :-\ But at least I'm done with all accessible Arlington sites aside from the national cemetery, and most of the northwestern Fairfax; next time I'm in the area and not doing DC, I'll hit sites down your way. By the way, when I was in Clifton, Popes Head Creek was really small; unless it gets a good deal bigger downstream, it should be easy to find a place to cross it if you can get time to go out to the Hemlock Overlook. Nyttend (talk) 22:44, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ Sorry for butting in, but the Wendy's is closer to George Mason Drive. :-P Largoplazo (talk) 22:52, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

So it is, but I'd been driving on Glebe Road and turned west on Lee Highway until I reached the Wendy's. I didn't know there was a George Mason Drive :-) Nyttend (talk) 02:43, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

@Largoplazo:, @Nyttend: Think I've found it: this the place? Not a part of the county with which I'm overly familiar. (For all that I've lived here going on thirty years, now, there's still a lot left for me to explore.)

The weather for the past couple of days has been...interesting, let's say (I actually saw snow flurries when I woke up on Friday morning. Literally...sat up in bed and saw the flakes swirling outside the window. I may or may not have said something choice under my breath in response.) We went to the Kennedy Center tonight - I was feeling well enough to honor the tickets we'd bought - and it was 35 out when we came home, just after 11. Congratulations on getting so many of the sites on your list. Southeast Fairfax should be a breeze, for the most part - have you ever hit Huntley? Somewhere around here I have a handful of photographs from before the restoration I need to upload. A few are corrupted, but some are not.

And thanks for the tip on Popes Head Creek. Something to look into when the weather's warmer. Speaking of which, I've about decided to plump for the Lexington visit in a couple of weeks. Won't have a chance like that often. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 05:50, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

Yes, that's the location. Remember that you know the area a ton better than I do :-) Never been to Huntley; before yesterday the only Fairfax County sites I had were boundary markers (the southernmost being the southern cornerstone at Jones Point), and the southeasternmost site I got yesterday was Green Spring. You're welcome, and enjoy Lexington. Nyttend (talk) 11:43, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

Just letting you know that I've reverted your recent category change on this article because the subject is not American. As you used an automated tool to do the same change on many articles it's probably a good idea to verify that other similar errors have not occurred on other articles too. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 17:20, 17 March 2018 (UTC)